Karanis / Vessel (jar) / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5555
- Other Number
- Harden 0493
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Vessel (jar)
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 7.7 cm;
- Height
- 10.1 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;103.3 g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Light green. Rim outsplayed horizontally and folded upward and inward. Neck concave, shoulder sloping. Body bulbous with greatest diameter near shoulder. Base concave with pointed kick. Pontil technique. Coil of similar glass round middle of neck, and joining rim with shoulder an openwork zigzag coil of same. Small fragment missing from rim. No weathering. Bubbly with few impurities.
- Verbatim Date
- ca. 5th C
- Unit Grid Number
- 0293
- Component/Room
- 00A
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- Set aside by Angela Susak from UCLA- done
- Publication Title
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Publication Year
- 1936
- Class Title
- Roman Art
- Pompeii seminar
- Class Instructor
- de Brestian, Scott
- Class Department
- Central Michigan University
- Class Year
- 2014
- 2015
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Fall
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.5555
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5555/0000_00_5555p04.tif
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"Karanis; Vessel (jar); Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5555/0000_00_5555p04.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.